skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>(Yes, they had some titles, but they needed bigger ones.)

The tragedy here is, they had bigger titles. At the last minute before launch, they pulled all EA titles from their service. When rival Gaikai got the rights to offer demos for EA games (not to actually sell them,) CEO Steve Perlman went batshit-crazy irate and pulled the plug. From then, even games that had been confirmed or greenlighted were pulled if Gaikai got them first.

I recommend anyone who's interested in what went wrong read this story from The Verge:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/28/3274739/onlive-report
Change the navbar color to a bright one, make it wide, add a shade to the white background (very light red, very light blue etc) That's it.
Where there's a will there's a way! Ideas have to start somewhere. We're more than just an idea at this stage. We've got blueprints, contracts and a crowd-funding campaign going.
I meant compile time of course, thank you for your clarifications. I'm eager to see how this turn out.
Auto-Determining Relevant Linux Benchmarks To Run
The domain name is unencrypted in the dns lookup.
Which of Zeno's paradoxes are you alluding to? I can't find any that fits the analogy. (i.e. never-ending work due to perfectionism)
Please link to the first page of the article ;)
IPhone Beats Outlook As Top Email Client
Could somebody suggest an easy to use tool that would allow them to encrypt the stored information so that it could be only decrypted when two out of three employees collaborate?
Come on - your local bakery (even if it's a chain, even if you don't like it as much as you used to) is a low-margin enterprise. Getting screwed out of thousands of dollars is tough on places like that.

Plus that was just the example. If they were net-30 on the break room food, it's a safe bet a bunch of freelancers and other local businesses also had losses.
Well the point is clearly made in the video... I think you're thinking of co-working space. A hackerspace is quite different http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace We do have the option of going with a real estate investor, however we think it will be more fun to get the community involved from an early stage and do a crowd funding campaign!
Yes, check out http://www.platoon.org/ We're buying the land. Copy has been updated.
Hate to do this, but it seems you just don't understand jack about linear algebra. I'm not even sure you read what I wrote.

1. Yes, I mixed in linear and non-linear processes. My point is that you use linear algebra even when working with non-linear processes.

2. Yes, I poo-pooed spreadsheets as a bad way to market linear algebra (I thought that was clear?)

3. Yes, I implied infinite dimensions is useful. Linear algebra in QM tends to be infinite-dimensional.

I'm reading a lot of hostility towards mathematics in general and linear algebra specifically (you've put a bunch of toxic comments all over this thread), and I'm not really sure why.
http://www.platoon.org/
People repeat that for every Humble Bundle and I'm still dubious.
We've added more concrete details to the plan. Thanks for the feedback.
Additional: the home/end keys don't seem to work in the text entry fields. I'm using Firefox 15 on Linux.
I never manage to figure out where is Bazaar and Launchpad in all this game...

every time I try to think of a more "friendly" git, it's Bzr that pops into my mind, not Hg, but... where does one "put it on the map" in the DVCS and related services world?
The ratings at goodreads.com are whole stars, from 1 to 5.
Discovr iOS 6 Adoption Tops 77%, iPhone 5 is 6%
That's not bad. What really does a software company have other than IP and a few computers? Even considering this, IP is a risky asset which probably won't create much cash flow on its own the way a piece of real estate would. The real assets are in knowledge, but those can only be rented.
DjangoCon 2012 Videos
So this is all in the holy name of making JavaScript the assembly language of the web? Making it possible for every JavaScripter to write "his own" JavaScript syntax definitions meaning that I'll (as a contributor or just casual watcher) would have to read his whole collection of macros before I could begin to understand the code?

I don't think this can be compared to API's as they still follow the regular syntactic definitions - This will be like reading a completely new language every time I read a different repository. (Of course this is a worst-case scenario as I imagine that many macros will be used across several projects, but still.)

Is all hope gone for writing vanilla JS gone? And isn't macros kinda going in the opposite direction than the ES specs? There's no use for many of the ES6/7 features as they could just be mocked up in macros.
Our plan is up to code, and of course we'll make sure that everything will pass inspection. Mayor Bloomberg is also pushing for green projects like this, so the wait time for a permit is much less.
Still..."scenario."
I think he's right. Too many people pick things that seem dreamy without considering whether it's actually something worth doing.

I'd honestly rather be an excellent plumber than a fifth-rate rockstar.
Yeah, my first impression of JIRA was pretty bad as well..
It took me three reads to get that. Well done good sir.
For me Jira is great, apart from the fact that our corporate install is quite slow sometimes it's the best bug tracking software I've used.
What is the criterion you would give an astrologer? I'm not equating them with astrology, but simply pointing out the countless billions wasted on mathematics that narrows to the rarefied "breed" of pure mathematician earning a salary is as much of a waste as if billions were spent on buggy whip boys. Some things are just meant to fade into museums and history books.
Sure.

I got out of hardcore gaming, and quite enjoyed the idea of booting up a game in a few seconds on my laptop, playing it for an hour and forgetting about it.

It worked very well for things like Borderlands and a few indie titles (Madballs, The Ball).

I also owned the physical console, so the transition of "I want to play Borderlands for an hour on my laptop immediately after finishing this work thing" to "My day is over, let me pick up that same game on the TV" was pleasant.

As far sluggish controls, on a connection that exceeded 10Mbps, the experience was only slightly worse than a wireless controller on a console, and after a few days of it being the only time I picked up a game I adjusted quite well.

I've since accepted that the service was aimed squarely at the market that my situation happened to exactly occupy (high bandwidth, casual gaming, multiple physical devices, just the right titles..), so your mileage may very well vary.
Fontzz.com - web font pairs for quick typography reference
I found the initial valuation questionable to start out with.

But its clear to me, Zuckerberg is more interested in long term growth of his company than he is any short term profitability goals. I think Facebook may well be a great stock to hold over decades - but not for months or weeks, as the current market seems to think in.
I hope the author is reading your comments, because they make it clear that at least one of his readers is coming away with seriously incorrect ideas about linear algebra!

The thing that you are missing is that linear algebra is about much more than matrix multiplication. It is about the properties of linear transformations in general. While matrix multiplication may have simple implementations in spreadsheets, many other concepts in linear algebra don't, for example calculations of and properties of eigenvectors and the corresponding eigenvalues, or the various matrix decompositions (themselves closely related to eigenvalues and eigenvectors). The matrix decompositions in particular give results that not only are mathematically interesting, but are enormously important computationally.

In terms of societal impact, other than calculus, no field of mathematics has had a greater impact than linear algebra. From quantum mechanics to the google search engine to machine learning, linear algebra is fundamental. Spreadsheets are awesome and a brilliant idea, but they are aimed at solving a different set of problems. Important though they may be, they pale in comparison to linear algebra.
OK then, I'm sensing hostility and baseless accusations. Sincerely sorry if you got offended.
All this articles proves is that people are misusing the word "passion" to mean some sort of hobby. If you haven't poured almost all your free time into something, you aren't passionate about it.
So, why not just deliver that topology using off the shelf components? Rabbit, Kafka, ZeroMQ, ... the toolbox is deep. This is not meant as a criticism, I am simply trying to understand what I am missing when I look at your design :-)
Why they chose to quote two random individual investors, I cannot say. What did they add to the story?
Amazon Kindle Fire HD: The Only Review You Will Need
"1. When you work hard at something you become good at it."

Yup

"2. When you become good at doing something, you will enjoy it more."

Hmm.. what now?

I'm good at a lot of things I hate. I've spent time doing them either because I had to or because I enjoyed it at the time. For me, it often works the opposite of what he says; when I get better at something, I often find it boring.
The iPhone 5 is twice as powerful as the iPhone 4S. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's more powerful than the Xbox 360.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6324/the-iphone-5-performance-...

Also note the distinction between the Xbox and the Xbox 360, because the iPhone 5 is undoubtedly more powerful than the Xbox.
$2k in monthly cupcakes... I gotta step up my cupcake game.
This is OT, but actually I wondered why there is no dnss equivalent to https. Leaking the domains you visit through dns queries is also a problem for TOR and other anonymity systems. Usually the DNS resolver one uses is provided by the ISP. Of course you can change that, but then still the unencrypted DNS queries are sent through central points on the ISP side, making it very easy for them to connect your account with the domains you visit.
shameless rabbitmq mqtt plug here :-) http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/09/12/mqtt-adapter/
Man on the street quotes give readers a personal connection to the story.

It's similar to the fact that if you tell someone a hundred people were killed in a bomb blast, they will brush it off. But if you describe the tragedy of a single victim, they will be crushed with feeling.
Upset may be too strong a word. It really disturbs me because it is for me unthinkable to sell books as if they had no value.

I have nothing against humble bundle, but it makes me unwell that they treat books this way. I don't care for games for no other good reason that it is only ingrained in my brain that books are not merely commercial products.
This is what it looks like on linux, Chromium Version 22.0.1229.92 (159988)

http://imgur.com/Fqm52
And we are on
You're aware that two weeks * 40 hours/week * $1000/hour = $80 000 (plus HSMs and ongoing costs imposed by additional security), and that the Bitcoin breaches we've heard of so far cost $100 000 - 300 000? The level of security you're proposing seems excessive.

(Also, their "team" page seems to list one person. It's very hard to make XofY security work in really small organizations.)

All that said, Bitcoin security is amateur hour, and you're right that there's a lot they could learn from people who have solved such problems before.
If you're a kid and you want to develop a game use what you've already got: JavaScript and your browser.

Much as I dislike the language it will run anywhere and you won't have to fork over $ for gear and silly licenses to deploy. Anybody in the whole world can instantly play your game if they have web access if you upload it to some public page.

Let's not push kids to closed off, for-pay eco-systems.
Indian Railways, live on Google Maps
Are you using search results from other search engines and applying some heuristics on that or have you mined your own web data. nice start though !!!
> I think Facebook may well be a great stock to hold over decades - but not for months or weeks, as the current market seems to think in.

Lots of people think it is a great stock to hold on for minutes, just long enough to sell it to someone else after borrowing it.
Isn't it really just "shift+f2" ? But your keyboard doesn't have an f2 key, so you have to press "fn" to get "f2" ?

Of course that doesn't help you, but this has annoyed me on mac, and I think they deserve the blame ;)
What investors didn’t see until a month after the IPO were the letters that pushed Facebook to disclose in detail such key financial challenges as decelerating revenue growth, user count and its dependence on gaming company Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) -- all issues that arose in prominence after it became a public company.

Publishing the SEC letters beforehand would be “a better way to get the information to the market than an amended filing,” said Peter Henning, a former SEC lawyer who teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit. “The SEC is a better soap box than the filings.”

Christ, that sounds like a PR disaster if not the stuff of more class action suits.
Just imagine you are not particularly interested in web technology and read this title again… it sounds like someone is rigging capybara races using some kind of rare metal from a far away place. What a weird world we live in…
That is what I meant, actually :-) Obviously, fun would be "fun".
I wouldn't want to hold any Internet-based stocks for "decades". I believe the life span of any public company to be 25 years or less, with Internet service companies being significantly less.
Now, dude, that's what I would call thoughtful advice. :-)
Nice one.
NPR Adds Content Permission Control to their API
What's the practical use for understanding that intuitively (for the 1000s of people who have to go through it every year)? Genuinely curious.
https://www.onlive.com/games/featuredgames#&tab=all_game...

There are 12 games on one page, and there are 26 pages - 12*26 = 312. I'm really baffled as to where did your number came from.
The curious imperative (Seth Godin)
My problem with books like this is that they have almost no connection to why Bayesian statistics is successful: Bayesian statistics provides a unified recipe to tackle complex data analysis problems. Arguably the only known unified recipe.

The Bayesian book I want should emphasize how Bayes is a recipe for studying complex problems and teach a broad range of model ingredients. Learning Bayesian statistics is about becoming fluent in describing scientific problems in probabilistic language. This requires knowing how to express and compose traditional models and build new ones based on first principles.

An unfortunate reality is that you still need to know computational methods too, but that should change soon enough.
VWO > Optimizely
Same a doctor could say, I guess—they look for problems in order to help. Too bad they don't have unit tests.

Finding a bug is good, the worse the better, not finding one means software has bugs you don't know about. Distance yourself. You shouldn't allow one project's problems influence your state of mind, since it can hurt other ‘patients’.

For me, most of the frustration comes not from working as ‘just a’ developer, but from leading projects and interacting with customer. It's exciting to solve higher-level problems, but communication is easy as the ocean.
Which can, depending on how the AES key has been generated, take basically forever or, say, ten minutes. (Using SHA-1(password) as your AES key is not a great idea.)
The essay had some great points which i agreed with (I've been a huge fan of personalization since MyYahoo!), but this one statement didn't sit well with me:

"Imagine walking into a grocery store and all the items you never buy are automatically filtered away, leaving only what you really want to buy."

...that's a typically geek guy mindset! I know this sounds shocking to some folks but there are actually people who enjoy the act of shopping because they don't know what they're looking for; and most importantly the serendipity of discovering something they didn't expect to see.

Example: Tonight i went into a bodega looking for very specific things, and then at the checkout counter I discovered a Halva candy bar which is unusual for said shop. Not only did I leave with my chocolate sesame bar, but when I told the kid behind the counter what it was he grabbed one for himself. So had i just found what I was looking for, it would have been a very dull experience.
Linux Kernel 3.5.6 Approaching End of Life, Fast
You are right. Evolution has its mysterious ways. But maybe it's only mysterious to us because our math has not evolved yet to a point where complex systems can also be properly described by theorems.
Thats kinda true actually :-) I am actually a coder by heart and moved now into a sys admin job. I kinda like it because once everything is nicely automated I did my work :-)
If you leave the battlefield to your competitor that's not really a winning strategy.

How is GaiKai doing now that OnLive has folded? Are they headed towards running out of cash as well at some point or are they doing better?
So, I'm going to counter here and say I don't find this to be a good intro. I started reading and had not heard of the "Girl named Florida" problem and then went to the linked to blog post http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/11/girl-named-florida-s...

The way he explains it I found to be confusing and counter-intuitive. I've taken basic stats in college, and learned some of the associated problems, though not this one, and learned the material though not in this particular way. I have to agree whole-heartedly with the commenter on that post "JeffJo" who stipulates why it's an ineffectual way to present the material. Furthermore, I found the author's dismissal of the valid criticism to be enough to not want me to read further.
Am I the only one who couldn't find a easy way to explore all public projects hosted at Bitbucket?

(https://bitbucket.org/explore) redirects to (https://bitbucket.org/repo/all)
Fixing an application suffering from 130x performance loss - a case study
Yeah, and nothing is better than the feeling of fixing a bug after 2 days of research/hacking/stackoverflowing :-) Motivates you like crazy to go on.
The slide I showed is not misleading. NaCl is not portable, PNaCl is still not ready for prime time based on Google's own actions, and you protest too much and do not practice what you preach.

"Mozilla" meaning me, bzbarsky, blizzard (previously), roc on the plugin-futures list, others have been forthright compared to the mostly-silent other browser vendors, who haven't even spoken via corporate or individual channels on this non-issue apart from my pal Maciej at Apple coining "Active G" to refer to Pepper.

If this circumstance makes you shoot us, the messengers, you need to read more Greek tragedy!

We're telling you why NaCl/Pepper are a no-sale among all the non-chromium browsers. You don't like the reasons we give, but that's no justification for your ascribing to us bad motives or a dishonest agenda or techniques ("propaganda"). We have been perfectly clear about the unacceptably high cost of Pepper, and the single-company control problem of all of NaCl/PNaCl/Pepper.

Your own misstatements are yours, and you should retract or not based on their righteous or wrongful nature, not on what anyone else does. That you excuse your conduct based on your grievance with us is thoroughly broken, as a piece of moral reasoning.

At this point you are perfectly clear: you want a free lunch (from all browsers, but especially from Firefox), we won't give it to you, so you call us names and imply that we act out of bad motives. That makes you persona non grata in my book. Good luck!
There is no argument that fundamental research (including, but not limited to pure mathematics) is a high-risk investment with a small chance of a large pay-off. But, like most good, high-risk investments the potential pay-offs can be massive and, importantly, not always well-understood in advance.

Would we have GPS without relativity which in turn depends on non-Euclidean geometry, initially considered a curiosity? What about public key encryption, built upon number theory, proudly described as "useless" by the pure mathematician G.W. Hardy? There are so many examples like these.

Be careful of committing the fallacy in assuming that because a clear line of ideas can be traced back from the present day that finding that line was as easy as recounting it.

Out of interest, what is your position of the spending on sport, the arts, and other cultural endeavours?
Blogspam. Original article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-he...

They might as well headline a story “Aliens exist, says top plumber”.
Here is how you can find this object with Mathematica: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11819/help-fi...
isn't this a true gem: "Our surroundings have pressured us to believe that doing less and moving slower are negative characteristics, but I see them as a obvious advantages."...
Ryan Cefalu, a 34-year-old data-systems manager and
father of two in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said he
bought about $4,000, or about a month’s salary,
in Facebook stock and has lost about $2,050 on paper.

“The IPO went terribly,” he said. “I expected it to go
up for a couple days at least before it went it down.
That never happened. It never had a chance to.”

I have zero sympathy for him. His investment strategy appears to have been "find a bigger sucker" and, unfortunately for him, he turned out to be the bigger sucker.

I'm a shareholder in FB, and have lost about 18% of the money I've put in, but I always expected it to go down for a while[1]. I actually never intended to invest until the first lockup period expired, but I got edgy when they finally started revealing their Adsense-esque ad strategy. As it works out, I'm actually at breakeven on the money invested after the first lockup expired. I figure that, within a couple years, my wild and crazy 'buy and hold' strategy is going to look pretty smart.

Then again, I could always turn out to be the bigger sucker ;-)

[1] Of course, my first tranche is down 40%, but I'm actually making it up on volume :P
The button itself could use a bit more personality, it currently looks like the generic bootstrap button
The BBS and a Geek's Trip Down Memory Lane
You're underlying point throughout this discussion seems to be that you think there are folks who overestimate the importance of mathematics (especially the abstract parts of it), those people are often smug, and sometimes more prone to pontificating than productivity.

Those people may exist. But I don't see any of them here.

You've gone too far in the other direction by saying it's a stupid and complete waste of time to study math. There are real breakthroughs in insight there, even if sometimes obscured by pompous nonsense.

Your comments are fueled by anger, rather than a sincere effort to inform others, and this is why you've been downvoted.

I'm willing to bet you can be a constructive contributor here if you try. You're probably right that a simplified and more pragmatic approach to learning math might make it accessible to a larger group of people. If so, it would be better to go help make that happen than to blindly criticize everyone else.
Going one step further with the general thrust of some of the thoughtful comments, here's a new site that was featured in HN a while ago.

http://buildnewgames.com/

Blurb: Build New Games teaches you game development for the Open Web. The techniques we teach are cutting edge, cross-browser, and cross-device.
We’re edited and operated by Bocoup and brought to you with support from Microsoft.

P.S: You can see why Gabe/Valve is frothing in the mouth at the mention of MSFT :-P